# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carroll-ballard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:27:55.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carroll-ballard"
name: "Carroll Ballard"
slug: "carroll-ballard"
description: "Carroll Ballard is an American filmmaker. Originally a documentarian, he became known for directing sweeping, visually striking films with natural and ecological themes. His body of work includes the films The Black Stallion (1979), Never Cry Wolf (1983), and Fly Away Home (1996)."
tagline: "American film director (born 1937)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/r9OuiXaiR9no1ZOEAtHQMRSVCWM.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1937-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.72221466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050597/"
    handle:    "nm0050597"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارول بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارول بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "کرول بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Бэллард, Кэррол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کیرول بیلارڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045172"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68212"
    title: "Carroll Ballard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump